Years ago hubby, his bro, the two oldest kids and I drove down the Florida Keys to learn for ourselves if Key West attractions really were all that world travelers said. The key lime pie we sampled there scored 10 as did the conch soup. To many the best Key West attractions center on the [...]
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Thoughts Of Thailand Travel
Mama told me there’d be days like this…. I find myself vicariously living all the experiences I passed on for marriage and family. LA recently returned from deployment in the Middle East. He had liberty in Thailand, and his stories of the country whetted my appetite. I’d love to travel again and one of those [...]
Timeshares and Vacation Clubs
It is a buyers’ market right now in real estate with prices down. But what about timeshares and vacation clubs? 67% of buyers choose interval purchases; the rest opt for points. Their $20,000 average resort condo investment has not dropped. Neither has the average $646 that buyers are responsible for annually in maintenance fees. But [...]
Global Access At High Speed
Here I am at Walt Disney World on the world wide web internet, able to correspond and chat quicker than the speed of light. All right, I’m exaggerating, but service today far surpasses that of dial up or DSL. Flexibility, reliability, and value are musts. Who wants to be connected into a system without firewall [...]
Some Habits Never Die
Old school parochial English composition demanded correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling and usage. When one saw RED, it meant there was an error to correct. Some people carry things too far. I have to plead guilty to this one. I found hubby’s note to me, “Honey, differin with you, I think we should leave in the [...]
The Men Did Not Like Morocco For the Food
I was going through Morocco last month, not Morocco as in Africa but Morocco as in WDW Epcot. The guys leering and drooling outside the restaurant which features authentic cuisine. Oh, that it were food they were mentally savoring! Not. It was the belly dancers performing. I let them enjoy themselves for a while and [...]
California Driving
I’m traveling in California for a few days. Driving here is not like home and it got me to thinking. How many times has each of us realized as we went by that the exit just passed was where we were supposed to get off? Nothing is worse than driving alone by night on a [...]
